Category: Annual Conference

#ELGL15 The Ceiling Can’t Hold Us: Next Gen City Councilors

The Reveal The Ceiling Can’t Hold Us: Next Gen City Councilors is a session all about the young, dynamic elected officials taking their community by storm. Moderated by Phil Keisling of Portland State University’s Center for Public Service, the session will feature: Lacey Beaty, Beaverton, OR – Councilor Beatty was elected to the Beaverton City … Continued

#ELGL15 Speaker Rollout

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_video title=”#ELGL15 Roll Out” link=”https://youtu.be/t21DFnu00Dc”][vc_column_text]Over the next 20 days, your #ELGL15 planning committee will roll out the conference sessions for the annual conference.  And because we’re all ambitious strivers with a penchant for competition, this roll out will involve clues shared on this blog and we want to hear from you on social media with … Continued

#ELGL15: Local Gov Trivia Night

[vc_row full_width=”” parallax=”” parallax_image=””][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]In conjunction with #ELGL15 (ELGL’s annual conference), we’re hosting “local government trivia night” at Edgefield on October 22. This is your chance to compete against some of the most innovative and creative local government professionals from across the country. And, we’ll have lots of great food and drinks and it will … Continued

#ELGL15: The Ceiling Can’t Hold Us

With our website revamp complete, we are moving onto #ELGL15. The #ELGL15 Creativity Summit is scheduled for October 22 and 23 in Portland, OR. This year’s agenda features speakers from across the country which represents the diversity of our membership. Previous ELGL conferences have sold out so we’re moving to a larger venue this year … Continued

#ELGL15: Twittersation Results

#ELGL15 Planning Committee members Kylie Bayer-Fertterer and Jahmai Cherry are blogging for ELGL as we lead up to our annual conference on October 23.  Today, Kylie shares with us some of the conference ideas that resulted from the #ELGL15 Twitter conversation.

Save the Date: #ELGL15

Write it down in pen- block it out as “busy” in Outlook – #ELGL15 is October 23, 2015 at Edgefield in Oregon.  The full-day conference will focus on creative solutions to public problems.  We’ll examine how creativity is essential to public service.  For out of town guests (and in town guests, too!), we’ll host a … Continued

#ELGL14 Music Video: Change Comin’

It’s bound to be considered the “Thriller” of local government music videos, it’s the #ELGL14 music video produced by Jordan Bunch Productions. HUGE thanks to Strategic Government Resources for assisting in the effort.

#ELGL14 Prezi: The Social Media Scene

Per the request of a number of #ELGL14 attendees, we’re posting a link to the social media presentation. Bridget, Julie, Kim, and Patrick provided a number of takeaways that might be useful for your organization. Link: #ELGL14: The Social Media Scene

Official #ELGL14 Picture Show Including The Wave

So many photos from #ELGL14 – some blurry, some off-centered, and some from a bike – but we’ve enlisted our official photographer David Nguyen to release the Official #ELGL14 Collection. Huge thanks to David who also photographed #ELGL13, our visit with Mark Funkhouser, Governing Magazine and our sustainability forum with Portland Mayor Hales and Indianapolis … Continued

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